They had Doom for 15 bucks 6 months after release? I didn’t know console players also got good deals sometimes.

Mostly Natalie these days

I wonder how many people still know about the Edsel. Guess we finally have a flop big enough to replace it in popular jargon.

Wonder if that inspired Dalí

You’re telling me there wasn’t a lengthy and well-publicized trial where Brand was acquitted, but then new allegations emerged? And, like, social media posts where the women got called liars? None of that happened? Huh. I even feel like I read a think-piece about how we could still appreciate Forgetting Sarah Marshall despite his crimes.

I love the onion

It’s not like importing a couple days’ worth of fuel was gonna change prices anyway. It was just a way to funnel money to daddy putin.

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning

https://wordsfortheyear.com/2016/09/13/on-seeing-the-100-perfect-girl-one-beautiful-april-morning-by-haruki-murakami/

Also not just a google problem. Kids raised on apps don’t really understand file structures, so if they can’t find a photo in the photo folder or pretty much anything else in the download folder, they don’t know what to do.

I think it was intentional

To what end? It crashed into a sidewalk, harming no one else. There are way easier ways to off yourself than a jet hitting the ground at 30000 fpm.

The video on that article had a great response from El-Sayed at the end, when the press was asking about his response to questions about Stevens and if he knew about her endorsement ahead of time. He basically said he understands that getting answers like that it what drives clicks but ultimately it doesn’t matter at all, and that he wished the press would focus on issues the local electorate cares about like prices and wages.

Data centers mark the modern day Valley of Ashes locations.

This also points out the problem with using AI in the long term. Reddit’s basically become a micro model of what happens when LLMs start scraping LLM content for content. Fucking tech bros who believe they’re prophets somehow couldn’t have foreseen this.

It’s light up time? Were ad men in the 50s concussed monkeys? Did their next ad for waffles go on to say “It’s eating time”, followed by their ad for soda that said “It’s drinking time”? Oh, maybe they did a car ad with “It’s driving time.”

They probably coasted for years on simple verb descriptions of the activity until one guy from another firm was sober enough to concentrate on his job for more than 12 seconds.

Silent Spring

Carson’s most direct legacy in the environmental movement was the campaign to ban the use of DDT in the United States, and related efforts to ban or limit its use throughout the world. The 1967 formation of the Environmental Defense Fund was the first major milestone in the campaign against DDT. The organization brought lawsuits against the government to “establish a citizen’s right to a clean environment”, and the arguments against DDT largely mirrored Carson’s. By 1972, the Environmental Defense Fund and other activist groups had succeeded in securing a phase-out of DDT use in the United States, except in emergency cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring

Agreed. Anything to push dumb fuck swing voters away from fascism

Didn’t he spend a billion dollars on pixelated legs?

I’d argue early PC and 3rd-4th gen (NES to SNES era)

I saw Robocop 2 too early. The scene that fucked me up is where the bad guy in the robot went from 0 to 100 and snapped his ex’s neck.

He probably tried to crack it open to see if there were any historic bottles of booze inside

I had a film class prof warn us about the sheep’s eye scene but it didn’t make watching it get sliced with a razor much better.